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Closet strategy: It's 85 degrees in Austin

Yay? Guess it's time to (sigh) shave my legs, bare my toes, and show some skin.

I get bored very quickly, so in order to keep myself engaged I have split my wardrobe into two summer sections. One is cotton, and I wear that until it hits the 90s. Then I put the cotton away, and pull out the linen until it goes back into the 80s again.

Mostly I look at my boots and sweaters and mourn springs and falls where the temperature stays in lovely 60s and 70s.

Oh I love the idea of breaking the summer wardrobe in two. I get tired of mine, too, by July. I'm already wearing shorts and linen and stuff, but I definitely have enough summer pieces to break them up.

I get sick of my wardrobe by the end of summer too. The thing that helps is that summer stuff goes on sale while it's still 95 degrees here with a couple more months of high temps. I can buy some new stuff and still have plenty of time to wear it before I pull out my winter stuff.

I feel your pain. We're having an exceptionally early and warm spring here, so I'm already sighing over my clothing choices. I really don't like summer and get so bored with dressing for it. Anyway, I like your idea of breaking it up to keep it, if not interesting, at least tolerable.

Yes! This is a good idea, and I have certain items that I know I can only wear up to 85 degrees. I'm not a linen kind of girl (wrinkles drive me crazy), but I broke down and bought two linen skirts this weekend, knowing that by July, I'll wish I had something cooler to wear. After a few months I get really tired of summer clothing as well.

I've been thinking about my hot weather strategy, too. I decided that I'd rather show more skin on bottom than on top, so my shorts and skirts are a little shorter (2" - 3" above the knee), and I'm buying tops and dresses that are sleeveless, but have wide straps and higher necklines. I also bought a denim vest to wear over skirts and tops. I'm bypassing anything lined in polyester, or requires a strapless bra because I just won't wear it. I'm thinking carefully about things that need to be layered over a cami too, but they're not out completely.